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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by Joker_vD on Thursday July 18, 2024 @02:31PM (#40998418)
There was also `write` [0]. It would literally parse /etc/utmp [1] to find out which terminal the recepient user was logged on, then it would open that terminal and write(2) the message to it. Ah, wonderful user isolation.

[0] https://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/write

[1] https://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/5/utmp

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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by riedel on Thursday July 18, 2024 @03:07PM (#40998750)
I still use posix write [1] if there is an incident and i want to talk to the other admins that all try to fix sth. Quite fünf AS the younger ones are always Quote puzzled and feel caught...

[1] https://manpages.org/write

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